P3D Images with little depth etc

[Project3D@xxxxxxx]

>I'll go so

>far as to point out that this is something which has been derided as

>"quackery" by folks on this list when it was being done digitally on

>someone's Web page from monoscopic image.  Does doing it on film with a

>stereo camera somehow legitimize it?



Well... I do think that you went just a little bit too far here... :-)

I look out of my window at a distant scene.  Do I accuse nature for 

cheating because I don't see depth with both eyes?  Did I tell anyone 

that there is supposed to be depth within the distant scene?  Did I 

present an image that could have had depth (like a portrait) in 

plain 2D and behind the window?



Should we remove the medals from slides that have won awards in PSA

stereo competitions when it is clear that it is a 2D scene?  (I have 

seen a few of those).



I like to take pictures from raised areas.  "Overview" pictures if you 

like.  I go up fairy wheels just to shoot a picture from the top.

That's what I like and there is no way to feel guity for that and no one

can tell me to take it in 2D to save film.

There's been a thread relating to what we think about that makes us actually
take a particular picture, and another thread relating to the REQUIREMENT (or
otherwise) that every picture taken in stero MUST include depth.

There's been a rebuttal of the "must have depth" in the form of a report of
photographing stars in a binoccular fashion, because this allows both eyes to
view the image in a red button viewer. Others have commented that distant
scenes rarely have stereoscopic depth clues, yet we still take that type of
picture. 

Personally, I rarely take an image in isolation. I tend to think in terms of
sequences. So I'll have an establishing shot, then move in closer. Sometimes I
might want to use an image that just doesn't exist as a stereo pair (e.g. I
might want to include a David Roberts lithograph (made in about 1840)
alongside a stereo of the same Egyptian site by Francis Frith (made in 1857).
Obviously the lithograph is flat. But there's no trickery.

And whilst I do try to make each image work in isolation, as they're designed
to be part of an AV sequence, they often fall short of being exhibition
standard images. Which is why I rarely enter competitions...


But at the end of the day, I take MY pictures for MY enjoyment. If they happen
to be of interest to other people, that's a bonus. I reserve the right to do
it my way. I'll break any rule I like - and be happy to discard the resulting
image if it doesn't work out! But the important thing is to have fun doing
whatever pleases you.

In fact, I get more pleasure from projecting other people's slides, than
making my own. Which is why I'm a projectionist...

Bob Aldridge


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